i remember when we promised we would leave here
when oasis took over the radio
you’d forget me when the leaves changed
i remember when you promised you would love me
and you’d hold me tighter than the night before
you’d forget me on the drive home
you drew a line between the winter and the autumn
oh i loved you harder than i knew i could
and you broke me in the margins
you tore your name out of the pages and the late nights
now by names of months and private codes and scars
i remember when i dreamed you carved in marble
when your heart beat so i heard it underground
you would crumble in your weakness
i remember when i knew that it was over
and i breathed the air that promised i would drown
and i knew you loved me sinking
you drew a line between the winter and the autumn
oh i loved you harder than i knew i could
and you broke me in the margins
you tore your name out of the pages and the late nights
now by names of months and private codes and scars
i remember when i hid from you that summer
it was over and it felt just like imagining i died
i’ll have you know that i’m in heaven
i am stars and hearts and horseshoes i am home
they unfurl like flags or sails or smiles or songs